* June 11 - The tourist hot spot was revealed as one of the multiple targets of a man who claimed to be part of an overseas terrorist network planning to make a car bomb and drive it at a crowded corner of the market.

MILL PARK

* February 10 - Momena Shoma, a 24-year-old Bangladeshi woman, stabbed a man in his sleep in an alleged Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack at his home. She pleaded guilty to terrorism charges.

2017

FLINDERS STREET

* December - Saeed Noori allegedly ploughs into a group of pedestrians on the corner of Flinders and Elizabeth Streets, killing one man and injuring 19 people. He has been committed to stand trial on murder and attempted murder charges.

NEW YEAR'S EVE

* November - Ali Khalif Shire Ali, 20, charged with allegedly planning to shoot New Year's Eve revellers at Melbourne's Federation Square. He is due to stand trial in 2019.

BRIGHTON SIEGE

* June - Terrorist Yacqub Khayre shot serviced apartment receptionist Nick Hao dead and wounded three police officers before being cut down in a hail of bullets at Brighton.

BOURKE STREET

* January - James Gargasoulas kills six people and injures 27 others when he deliberately drives into scores of people in the busy shopping area. He was found guilty of murder and endangering the lives of people.

* December - Three men, who can't be named for legal reasons, allegedly firebomb the Imam Ali Islamic Centre, Fawkner, in what police described as an Islamic State-inspired attack. They are yet to stand trial.

TEEN TERROR

* December - An 18-year-old man, who can't be named, jailed for seven years for planning to set off a home-made bomb in a crowded part of Melbourne's CBD in 2015.

ANZAC DAY

* September - Sevdet Ramadan Besim, 19, jailed for at least seven-and-a-half years after admitting he was plotting to run down and behead a police officer on Anzac Day, 2015.

BOMB

* August - Phillip Galea, an alleged far-right extremist, is charged with making preparations for terrorist bomb attacks on the Melbourne Anarchist Club and Melbourne Resistance Centre between November 2015 and August 2016. He remains in custody.

2014

KNIFE ATTACK

* September - Numan Haider, 18, stabbed two counter-terrorism officers outside a police station before he was shot dead.